Bryan Lip

Silicon Valley based international executive with over 20 years internet industry experience in a range of sectors including travel, banking, broking, home design and telecommunications. Worked for a range of organizations from startups to Fortune 100's including directorship and head of roles, managing annual gross sales lines exceeding $1.5 billion. Qualified lawyer with experience as an in-house counsel, about 7 years with online financial services pioneer, E*TRADE dating back to the late 90s with senior roles in product, marketing and alliances. Just over a year at Barclays with global divisional responsibility for their ecommerce operations. 8 years with the world's largest online travel business Expedia Inc. Currently the Senior Global Business Development lead at Houzz for Consumer Partnerships. I've also established and delivered consistent revenue growth and profits from my own personal start-up travel business. 25 years experience using the internet and it's earlier incarnations (circa 1989). Built my first "world wide web homepage" 20 years ago. And an intimate knowledge of Google, Bing, Yahoo!, MSN, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Inbound Marketing & Social Media. Top strengths: * Innovation, creativity, resourceful and analytical * Sales and negotiation skills * Ability to deal effectively at all levels * Strong commercial acumen... But.. most of all, 'figuring out what good looks like' + 'making goodness, happen @ speed'. Specialties: Business Development, Commercial Negotiation, Account Management, Campaign Management, Online Marketing, Account Acquisition, Internet Industry, People Management, User Experience, Conversion Optimization, Corporate Development, Strategic Change, Solution & Value Selling. Open to any thoughts, ideas, concepts, no matter how zany you think they are :-) Contact me: bryan [at] vctravel.com